Ritchen-knife and method of making



R. K. TELLER.

Patented Jan. 25, 1921.

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AT ORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RUFUS K. TELLER, F

UNADILLA, NEW YORK.

KITCHEN-KNIFE AND METHOD OF MAKING.

Application filed March 17, 1919.

To all whom it may concern.

1913. One object of the invention is to provide a knife having an improved connection between the handle and the blade. A further object of the invention is to provide-an, improved method of effecting the connection between the handle and the blade.

Of the accompanying drawing which shows the preferred embodiment of the invention:

Figure 1 is a side view of the-knife.

Fig. 2 is a side view of the blade.

Fig. 3 is a side view of the handle.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional view taken along the line 44 of Ifig. 1 and showing the handle and blade before being connected. This view also shows two squeezing plates adapted to be used in accordance with my improved method.

Fig. 5 is a View similar to Fig. l but show ingrthe handle engaged with the blade.

ig. 6 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional View taken along the lines 66 of F i s. 1 and 4.

ig. 7 is a view similar to Fig. 6 but showin t e handle engaged with the blade.

' ferring to the drawing 1 represents the blade and 2 the handle of a knife embodying the invention. The blade is made of resilient sheet metal and is provided with two working edges 3 and 4 of different lengths and at an obtuse angle to each other. Opposite the shorter working edge 3, the blade is provided with edges 5 and 6, meeting at an obtuse angle.

The handle 2 is made of soft wire and is of loop form. It is arranged perpendicularly to the shorter working edge 3. The end parts 7, 7 of the handle wire are turned outward to conform to :the angle between the blade edges 5 and6, and these out turned ends are slotted at 8, 8 to receive the blade. This slotting may be effected by sawing or by splittingv or in any other satisfactory manner. I

Specification-of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 25, 1921.

Serial No. 283,192.

The parts of the blade which enter the handle slots are provided respectively with pairs of holes 9, 9. The slotted parts of the handle are closed upon the blade and the outer surfaces opposite the holes are de pressed at 10, 10, thus enabling the metal of the handle to be entered in the holes at both sides thereof. By this construction I provide what may be termed integral rivets connecting the handle and the blade. The two parts are thus very firmly connected and accidental disengagement is impossible.

In making the knife the holes 9, 9 are formed in the blade and the handle is shaped- The blade and the handle, assembled as described, are placed between the squeezing plates 11, 11 with the .die heads 12, 12 in register with the-holes 9, 9. Then the squeezing plates are forced together thus applying pressure to the outside surfaces of the slotted parts of the handle to close them upon the blade. The projecting die heads 12, 12 cause the pressure to be greatest at positions opposite the holes, thus depressing the metal of the handle at the said outer surfaces and causing it to enter the holes at both sides. In this'way there are formed the. integral 'rivets before described.

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2. The herein described method of making a knife for kitchen use, comprising a resilient sheet metal blade with two working edges of difierent lengths and at an obtuse angle and a soft wire handle -opposite and perpendicular to the shorts orking edge of the blade, the said metlio consisting in slotting the end parts of the wire handle, in

- being depressed at the outer surfaces oppoforming holes in the edge parts of the blades to be greatest at positions opposite the holes at the places of handle engagement, in placin the blade whereby the metal of the handle ing the handle and blade in assembled relais depressed at the outer surfaces and is 10 tion with the blade entering the slots, in apentered in the holes at both sides.

5' plying pressure to the opposite surfaces of In testimony Whereof,I afiix my signature. the slotted parts of the handle to close them upon the blade, and in causing the pressure RUFUS K. TELLER. 

